xylem

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
xylem /ˈzʌɪləm/

▶noun Botany the vascular tissue in plants which conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

– origin C19: from Gk xulon ‘wood’ + the passive suffix -ēma.

'xylem' also found in these Oxford entries:

cambium - meristem - stele - vascular bundle

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